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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Fruit and vege research does not rely on 'a peel' 

Published on 27 July, 2004 

A PhD student is doing laboratory groundwork so the fruit and vegetable industry can offer guaranteed quality produce to consumers.

PhotoID:1547 Phul Subedi is a horticulture lecturer from Nepal, studying at CQU Rockhampton as part of the Non-Invasive Quality Assessment Group towards a PhD.

He using Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to assess if green-stage starch levels of bananas are a good indicator of sweetness at ripe stage.

In the area of mandarins, he is working with DPI to check if NIR can help detect the problem of dryness before the skin is peeled.

Mr Subedi is also checking whether potato starch levels are a reliable indicator of quality of chipping potatos.

He said extra consumer confidence in the quality of these products could be worth a lot to the industries which produce them, particularly in the area of exports.

Mr Subedi's research is supervised by Professor David Midmore and Associate Professor Kerry Walsh at CQU.

For details call Phul Subedi via 4923 2099 or p.subedi@cqu.edu.au